A good portion of the startups I meet and advise want to use the
newest, hottest technology to build something that’s cool, but
not technologically groundbreaking. I have yet to meet a startup
building a time machine, teleporter or quantum social network
that would actually require some amazing new tech. They have
awesome new ideas with down-to-earth technical requirements, so I
kept wondering why they choose this shiny (and risky) new stuff
when all they need is a good ol’ trustworthy database. I think
it’s because many assume that building the latest and greatest
needs the latest and greatest!

Facebook recently made opensource, osquery.
It gives you operating system data via SQL queries! Its very
neat, and you can test this even on MacOSX (it works on that
platform & Linux). It is by far the project with the most
advanced functionality, linked here in this post.

I noticed that rather quickly, there was a PostgreSQL project,
called pgosquery, based on Foreign Data Wrappers with a similar idea.
(apparently it was written in …

MySQL team attends and speaks at the MOSC 2014 on September
24-25, 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We are having a MySQL
booth and above that our local colleague Ricky Setyawan has
secured one 45 minutes talk scheduled for Wed, Sep 24
@2:15-3:00pm on the MySQL Web Reference Architecture.

We will also run two hours workshop on MySQL Fabric scheduled
for Thursday, Sep 25 @2:30-4:30pm. If you are around do not
forget to come to our booth and/or visit our MySQL session &
workshop!

If you are a MySQL power user in Korea, its well worth joining
the Korean
MySQL Power User Group. This is a group led by senior DBAs at
many Korean companies. From what I gather, there is experience
there using MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server and Galera Cluster
(many on various 5.5, some on 5.6, and quite a few testing 10.0).
No one is using WebScaleSQL (yet?). The discussion group is
rather active, and I’ve got a profile
there (I get questions translated for me).

If you use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), you are always
given choices of AMIs (by default; there are plenty of other AMIs
available for your base-os): Amazon Linux AMI, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, SUSE Enterprise Server and Ubuntu. In terms of cost, the
Amazon Linux AMI is the cheapest, followed by SUSE then
RHEL.

I use EC2 a lot for testing, and recently had to pay a “RHEL tax”
as I needed to run a RHEL environment. For most uses I’m sure you
can be satisfied by the Amazon Linux AMI. The last …

When I started writing this I wrote "Last week Opscode came"
obviously now that is "A couple of months ago Opscode came with a
bunch of announcements ... one of them being that they are also
going to support the Open Source Chef .. rather than
only their own platform.

I'd love to see more companies formally do this .. Over the past
couple of years I've had numerous situations where organizations
where happy to pay for support to an commercial backer of Open
Source software... but they were not interested in , software
updates, fancy dashboards , …

People often wonder why DBA's used to hate developers, and with
DBA's also the System Engineers,
(note that I just expanded devops by adding dba's to the
picture..)

So let me tell you a story ..

A couple of weeks ago one of our customers wanted to start
experimenting with a new type of CRM. A gamified CRM.
Zurmo ...

So we set this thing up in a dev environment and started playing
with it , while at first it looks nice ..
the application actually felt pretty slow.. however given that is
a low resource development environment we looked no further.

Towards the end of last year, I was asked to investigate the Red
Hat Software Collections by someone that popped by one of my
talks. SkySQL
has been working heavily with Red Hat, and with Fedora 19 shipping MariaDB as a default, it seems like
MariaDB is getting even more distribution. The Red Hat Software Collections 1.0 Beta …

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